Of course - I should have added that I don't neccessarily share the sentiment behind those jokes (quite the contrary). For me they are just inevitable (social)

Of course - I should have added that I don't neccessarily share the sentiment behind those jokes (quite the contrary). For me they are just inevitable (social) indicators for "non-native" software (i.e. I'd say anything with significant code running through an intermediate representation or virtualization at runtime). As such I simply found emacs an odd choice as an example. BTW: Notepad++ uses .dlls as plugins. (Which doesn't neccessarily make it a better editor than emacs :) )